You can smell what time does to film the moment an old metal can is opened. Vinegar. And the smell of vinegar is never a good sign. That's when it's time for the washing machine. The specialized ...

The DEFA documentary whisper & SHOUT (Dir: Dieter Schumann, 1988) is the only official documentary ever made about the East German rock scene before the Wall came down. For a year, the film crew ...

Red Cartoons, a collection of animated short subjects from East German filmmakers that spans the late 1970s and early ‘80s, is just one more reason to be thankful for the fall of communism, in case ...

BERLIN — Erwin Geschonneck, a German actor who spent years in Nazi concentration camps for his communist sympathies and went on to star in scores of East German films, died Wednesday, the country's ...